{"id":1892,"date":"2011-09-20T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2024-01-25T18:11:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:11:54","slug":"avistaje-ballenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/whale-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Watching in Patagonia Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whale watching season in\u00a0 Patagonia extends from May to early December, being September and October the best months<\/em><\/h2>\n

Reproduction rituals are the powerful force that summons the whales. This wonderful show of nature\u00a0 grows every year, thanks to the protection work carried out by various organizations in the area. And you can witness these breeding rites if you travel to the coastal city of Puerto Madryn<\/a> in Argentina.<\/p>\n

A Typical Whale Watching excursion<\/h2>\n

The Southern Right Whale watching navigation excursions depart from Puerto Pir\u00e1mides<\/a> Port inside Valdes Peninsula<\/a>. There are six companies authorized in the Province for this activity. They take the necessary care not to produce environmental impact and not to alter the whales’ behavior.<\/p>\n

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Whale watching – Puerto Pir\u00e1mides – Patagonia Argentina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The whale watching trip starts going along the coast in both directions and then getting one or two miles into the sea, to get in touch with the Southern Right Whales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first stop is generally at La Lober\u00eda (sea lion colony), which is perpendicular to Puerto Pir\u00e1mides and has got 2000 specimens of whales.<\/p>\n

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Whale watching navigation – Puerto Madryn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The sailing along the coast allows one to also watch many cormorant colonies. They build their nests against the cliff and there they also breed and raise their babies. You can also observe other specimens of the coastal bird fauna.<\/p>\n

Then the ship gets far from the coast, the engine is stopped and for a moment there is plain silence interrupted only by the sounds of penguins, seagulls, gulls and cormorants. It’s the moment of waiting\u2026 somebody watches a group of birds at the distance.<\/p>\n

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Waiting for the Star to arrive: Southern Right Whale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ship gets closer and suddenly, when the whole group is attentive, something silvery and white jumps next to the ship, and the strong sound of a body splashing the sea is heard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whale watching navigation – Puerto Madryn – Patagonia Argentina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s all excitement then. Everybody shouts, speaks in different languages, the children cries blend\u2026\u00a0And to complete this feast some dolphins always show up to jump and play in complete freedom along the Whales.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whale watching season in\u00a0 Patagonia extends from May to early December, being September and October the best months Reproduction rituals are the powerful force that summons the whales. This wonderful show of nature\u00a0 grows every year, thanks to the protection work carried out by various organizations in the area. And you can witness these breeding… Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[57,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-1892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-puertomadryn","8":"tag-ballenas","9":"tag-excursiones"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12491,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/12491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}